About the role
What we're looking for
We need a generalist backend engineer with 3+ years of experience (ideally 5-8) in distributed systems who has shipped and maintained production systems at real scale. You should be comfortable reasoning about concurrency, race conditions, and async request patterns, and have a track record of building stable, reliable distributed infrastructure. Bonus points if you have experience with auction systems, exchanges, or marketplace logic.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve Mithril's auction engine and bid management system – the core orchestration layer that allocates GPU capacity to users based on real-time market dynamics
- Take ownership of platform-level distributed systems work including reservation management, capacity allocation algorithms, and pricing logic
- Work closely with the Supply and Consumption teams to ensure GPUs are optimally allocated and that user requests map cleanly to backend orchestration
- Improve stability, resiliency, and operational maturity of the platform layer – including race condition handling, concurrency management, and system reliability
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud environment management, and ingress infrastructure that supports the broader engineering organization
- Ship features end-to-end: from design doc through backend API, database migration, feature flag rollout, and monitoring
- Participate in on-call rotations, triage production incidents, and contribute to operational runbooks and automation that reduce toil over time